Posted on 01/08/2006 2:56:32 PM PST by Dichroic
Most paleontologists look into the mouth of an allosaurus and see a prehistoric eating machine with a jaw full of flesh-tearing teeth.
Peter DeRosa peers into that mouth and sees the hand of God.
Working from a business park about 80 miles north of Tampa, Fla., DeRosa and his family are hammering away at two bedrock principles of modern science: evolution and the notion that Earth is about 4 billion years old.
The DeRosas are part of a small but growing band of creationists using dinosaurs - the icons of an ancient Earth - to argue that the world is only 6,000 years old. The DeRosas' tool of choice? The fossilized bones of Ebenezer the allosaurus and other creatures cramming their makeshift laboratory.
"It's very clear in Scripture. God's word is true," said DeRosa, 22.
"Everything we've found supports that." The DeRosas run Creation Expeditions, a ministry that relies on dinosaurs to spread what they say is the infallible word of the Bible.
The family operation includes Peter, his brother Mark, sister Leah, and parents Pete and Linda.
The DeRosas have no formal training but have studied dinosaurs and fossils for more than a decade. .......... The DeRosas' digs have produced impressive results. They have uncovered a 22-foot-long allosaurus - a smaller relative of the T. rex - and a 15-foot-tall edmontosaurus, a plant-eating, duck-billed dinosaur.
The DeRosas and their movement, in essence, are trying to turn science against itself.
By digging up fossils and interpreting their finds, some creationists hope to convince others that evolution and a 4-billion-year-old Earth are nonsensical notions unsupported by the data.
They maintain, for example, that they've found organic plant matter buried with fossils indicating the animals died only a few thousand years ago.
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Russell Humphreys answers Thompson, Schimmrich, et al. ( last modified 10 March 2002 )
http://www.trueorigin.org/ca_rh_01.asp
You should be careful believing creation "science" -- it seems to me that creation "science" has the goal not of learning how the universe works but distorting real science to fit what the bible says.
The story of Adam and Lilith is hardly common knowledge and is considered apocryphal.
It might be surprising how many know.
"because even Dawkins admits that the odds of abiogenesis are fantastically remote. "
Yes, but they have already worked around that. Leonard Susskind, the inventor of String Theory, says:
"With an infinite number of universes, says Susskind, there is bound to be one with a cosmological constant like ours."
Okay, right. Nothing like working backwards from the answer. Gee, I thought science didn't do that.
Scripture tells us that God DID create other life than what exists on earth. Most that we know about are spiritual beings.
We are not told in scripture that God created life on other planets. But neither are we told in scripture that God did not create life on other planets. So we simply don't know.
And I assume that you are staking your hopes on Mars because of the trace amounts of Methane? I hear there is a lot of Methane on Titan...must be a lot of life there too.
[Yawn]
Why do kooks act like kooks? If I was going to argue that the Earth isn't 4 billion years old I sure wouldn't come with 6,000 years instead.
Human bureaucracy itself is older than that.
And you dear sir have never had the pleasure of watching the Flintstones. They were truly the modern stone age family.
Also I distinctly remeber Tony Curtis being on the show a few times. Thus this proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the earth is much younger than we are led to believe.
And don't get me started on the Jetsons.
How about a weevil with perfectly formed wings under a fused wing cover?
Whales with legs?
Blind Salamanders with eyes that have retinas and lenses, yet the eyelids grow over the eyes?
See: Anatomical vestiges
Look right now on yahoo photos and you'll see a cyclops cat born with one big eye in the middle of it's nose-less face. I don't think that occurs often. The kitten died after a day. It was a very unsuccessful mutation.
Proof please
lol! One of my favorites was the one where Elizabeth Mongotmery guest starred as her character from Bewitched. Also the one where they went to the Bedrock World's Fair and time-travelled to 1965.
You've obviously never seen a Bible, let alone read one.
Ate your god anyway. You didn't know what to do with it; left it soft all the time.
Look out! There's a brand new law about annoying someone on the internet!;^)
Exactly.
As this verse implies, Cain apparently married one of his sisters.
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